A passion for books
Subtitle: a book lover's treasury of stories, essays, humor, lore, and lists on collecting, reading, borrowing, lending, caring for, and appreciating books
By: [edited by] Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan.
Contributors: Rabinowitz, Harold, 1948-; Kaplan, Rob.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Times Books
Published: October 6, 1999
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780965043076
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Books and reading; Books and reading -- Literary collections
Genres: Literary collections.
Notes: Published in the United States by Times Books, a division of Random House, Inc. ... and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-349).
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Ray Bradbury
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction: A Passion for Books
pagenum: xvii; title: Unpacking My Library by Walter Benjamin
pagenum: 4; title: In a Second-Hand Bookshop by Christopher Morley
pagenum: 5; title: The Ritual by Rob Kaplan
pagenum: 13; title: How to Get Started in the Book Business by Stuart Brent
pagenum: 19; title: "Look Who's Been Remaindered Now"
pagenum: 26; title: Ten Best-Selling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty of More Times
pagenum: 27; title: Lending Books by Anatole Broyard
pagenum: 28; title: On the Return of a Book Lent to a Friend by Christopher Morley
pagenum: 32; title: Welcome Home Borrowed Book
pagenum: 33; title: How to Justify a Private Library by Umberto Eco
pagenum: 34; title: How to Organize a Public Library by Umberto Eco
pagenum: 37; title: Samuel Pepys's Library by Nicholas Basbanes
pagenum: 40; title: Pillow Books by Clifton Fadiman
pagenum: 43; title: The New Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major
pagenum: 49; title: Comfort Found in Good Old Books by George Hamlin Fitch
pagenum: 55; title: The Collector by Susan Sontag
pagenum: 62; title: Bibliomania by Gustave Flaubert
pagenum: 64; title: "All the Friedrich Nietzsche You'll Ever Need"
pagenum: 77; title: Bibliomania by Roger Rosenblatt
pagenum: 78; title: The Book Action by Solly Ganor
pagenum: 80; title: From Areopagitica by John Milton
pagenum: 88; title: Books Unread by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
pagenum: 89; title: Ten Books That Shaped the American Character by Jonathan Yardley
pagenum: 94; title: Books That Changed America by Robert B. Downs
pagenum: 96; title: The Commerce of Reading by Michel de Montaigne
pagenum: 98; title: Book Collecting by Robertson Davies
pagenum: 102; title: "Holy Cow"
pagenum: 110; title: Bibliomaniacs by John Mitchell
pagenum: 111; title: They Don't Call it a Mania for Nothing by Harold Rabinowitz
pagenum: 122; title: Bibliolexicon
pagenum: 134; title: What is the Matter With the Bookshop? by A. Edward Newton
pagenum: 135; title: "Non-Books"
pagenum: 147; title: The Memorable Books That Never Existed
pagenum: 148; title: The Last of His Race by A. Edward Newton
pagenum: 150; title: The Perfect Book by William Keddie
pagenum: 163; title: Books Are the Windows of the Soul by Henry Ward Beecher
pagenum: 164; title: How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
pagenum: 165; title: Three by Quindlen
pagenum: 173; title: Talking of Old Books by A. S. W. Rosenbach
pagenum: 175; title: Potch by Leo Rosten
pagenum: 196; title: "Damn It! Wait Your Turn!"
pagenum: 205; title: A Good Time to Start a Book Club by Al Silverman
pagenum: 206; title: Invasion of the Book Envelopes by John Updike
pagenum: 217; title: "And to Some People We Might Not Sell It at Any Price"
pagenum: 220; title: My Friends by Petrarch
pagenum: 221; title: Norman Mailer's Ten Favorite American Novels
pagenum: 222; title: W. Somerset Maugham's Ten Greatest Novels
pagenum: 223; title: The Bible Through the Ages by Ben D. Zevin
pagenum: 224; title: Aldus Manutius by William Dana Orcutt
pagenum: 240; title: Benjamin Franklin's Epitaph
pagenum: 256; title: The Collector by William Targ
pagenum: 257; title: The Newark Public Library by Philip Roth
pagenum: 278; title: Why Does Nobody Collect Me? by Robert Benchley
pagenum: 281; title: How Not to Care for Books by Holbrook Jackson
pagenum: 286; title: On Reading and Collecting by Herbert Faulkner West
pagenum: 297; title: How to Care for Books by Estelle Ellis and Caroline Seebohm
pagenum: 313; title: Fifteen Books We Would Memorize If We Were the "Living Books" Characters in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 by The Editors
pagenum: 321; title: "I Just LIke to Be in Their Presence Occasionally"
pagenum: 323; title: 100 Greatest Novels in the English Language by A. Edward Newton
pagenum: 325; title: Top 100 English-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century by The Editors of the Modern Library
pagenum: 334; title: 91 Chambers Street by Edward Robb Ellis
pagenum: 337; title: Bibliobibliography -- Books About Books: A Selection
pagenum: 343; title: Permission Acknowledgments
pagenum: 351